On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Stanislav Kholmanskikh <stanislav.kholmansk...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > On 03/18/2016 11:30 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >> <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Le ven. 18 mars 2016 08:30, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> a >>> écrit : >>>> >>>> >>>> Documentation says >>>> >>>> On sparc64 GRUB is unable to determine which server it was booted from. >>>> >>>> Could someone clarify what it means here? sparc64 is ieee1275 that >>>> supports auto configuration for network boot - at least, it has code >>>> to do it. So far the only platform where it is not possible seems to >>>> be uboot (which is also missing from Platform limitations section). >>> >>> >>> AFAIR sparc 64 doesn't provide fields code for ieee1275 depends on. >>> Moreover >>> sparc64 doesn't support booting via dhcp and works thorough rarp instead >> >> >> >> Strictly speaking they boot via bootparams protocol, RARP is used for >> initial IP auto-configuration. Sun/Oracle servers support DHCP boot >> for quite some time; actually it is mandatory for Solaris 11 AI >> (automated installer). I am not sure whether they export this >> information in OBP though. >> >> Someone from Oracle listening here? > > > I can't say for Oracle HW in general, but on T4, T5, T7 machines booting via > DHCP/TFTP is supported, for example via 'boot net:dhcp'. >
Sure, but is content of DHCP ACK available to GRUB (see grub-core/net/drivers/ieee1275/ofnet.c:grub_ieee1275_net_config_real()) - i.e. can GRUB do autoconfiguration of network interface used to load it based on information from firmware? > In our group we do load grub2 via dhcp/tftp. There were some issues, but in > general this scheme works fine. I hope patches for these issues will be sent > here soon. > > Thanks. > > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
